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Access (from page 25)
one stumped me, so I asked Jim Johnston,
the post Advisor, what "A.B." meant.
"That's able-bodied," he said.
"Around here, we've all got initials."
And that's when I started thinking. The
marvelous thing about Post 2027 isn't that
it helps a lot of disabled people get
around. The marvelous thing is that ev-
eryone in the post is equal.
Take LeeAnn, for example. She skied
like a champ all day long. By late after-
noon, though, I noticed she was a little
tired, and she kept coughing.
"Cystic fibrosis will do that," she said
as several of us paused on a ridge before
one last run. "You build up a lot of con-
gestion in your lungs." It wasn't until that
moment that I realized LeeAnn, who had
spent the day helping others with more
obvious difficulties, wasn't one of the
"able-bodied."
"I just deal with it," she said, matter-
of-factly.
And that's the attitude of the post.
"I've been involved with recreation for
the disabled for years," Johnston said.
"This integration of the disabled and the
nondisabled is a new concept for me, but it
works well. Each group stretches so
much more. The disabled stretch because
they're not just with each other. And the
nondisabled kids work hard to help every-
one. There's leadership among every
member, not just the officers."
Post 2027 is chartered to the Maurice
Warshaw Foundation, a private, nonprofit
organization that promotes employment
of the handicapped. Through a program
called "Access," the foundation started
the Explorer post to help disabled youth
develop social skills necessary to hold
onto a job. Van Potter, an executive direc-
tor at the time and now a board member
of the foundation, came up with the idea
of including both disabled and nondisa-
bled in the same post.
"People are people," he said. "If they
get used to each other, everybody bene-
fits."
Since the post was formed more than
two years ago, it had met many of the
same challenges any Scouting unit en-
counters: recruiting members and
leaders, earning money, providing trans-
portation, and mustering supplies, equip-
ment, and community support.
Of course, some things are unique to
this group. "One of our biggest chal-
lenges has been to get capable, able-
bodied kids to join us," Johnston said.
"The ones we have are excellent, but we
have such a large number of disabled who
want to be in the post that we can always
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